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Inside the flag-hung hall 400 high offi cials and one woman, Mme. Chiang, stood as the Generalissimo recited the testament of Sun Yat-sen and reached for the single sheet of white paper inscribed with the oath of the Presidency. The Generalissimo, in full-dress uniform, was taut, expectant; his decorations gleamed and his immaculate white gloves moved restlessly. Kuomintang Elder Wu Chih-hui, scholar and veteran of 1911, solemnly handed the new President the great jade seal, wrapped in red silk, and Chiang was ready to deliver his Double Ten address, doing double duty as his inaugural...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria) a little col or on the sinking of the Repulse -the orange-bright explosions of Jap torpedo planes above the calm blue China Sea - greying Cecil Brown remarked: "I think it ... brings more grey hairs to your head to resist the pressures ... of offi cials. . . ." The award to Brown reflected rightful honor on U.S. radio newshawking abroad, which reached its peak in 1941. Other awards showed an equal sense of the significant...
Much of the freight it hauled was chili peppers. That was how it got its name. But when busses and trucks began to compete, business on the Chili dwindled. Offi cials of the D.&R.G.W. asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon the line. Permission was granted, and last week the mourners gath ered, and wreckers moved in to "roll up" the track...
...speculators took it easy last week. Brokers cleaned up the litter left by the July Crash (TIME. July 31). Stock and grain prices rebounded, then shuffled off in a secondary reaction as exchange offi cials prepared for resumption of normal trading. The Chicago Board of Trade retained limits on daily fluctuation but removed the minimum prices established when Edward A. ("Doc") Crawford was suspended for insolvency. Banned from the pit forever were all dealings in in demnities (options on grain futures contracts, generally regarded as pure gambling). The New York Stock Exchange voted to lengthen its short sessions into...
...their leader, Charles E. Hughes, some 400 U. S. men of law trooped into Westminster Abbey, London, found chairs reserved for them In Poet's Corner. Though not yet offi- cially the guests of the English Bench and Bar, the visitors' presence was recognized by a sermon on Fundamentalism vs. Modernism, their native religious issue...